[Tfug] Lies, damned lies, and swap space

[Shawn Nock]

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Matt Jacob wrote:
> I've got 2 gigs of RAM in this thing, so I don't anticipate I'll be
> swapping very frequently. On the other hand, could it possibly hurt to
> allocate at least 1G to swap?

If you plan to "suspend to disk" (hibernate) then Swap = RAM is needed.

Shawn

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Shawn Nock (OpenPGP: 0xB64200E1)
Unix Systems Group; CCIT
University of Arizona
nock at email.arizona.edu
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